Vienna 1920

A rare and beautiful example of detailed real-world observation, without any of the structuring devices typical of newsreels: With indelible glimpses of the Jewish quarter, the Prater, the Naschmarkt (open-air food market), and bourgeois flâneurs promenading in the city center in 1919–20, Vienna’s urban space is meticulously and unhurriedly laid out, as if intended not just for the contemporary public, but also for future historians of cosmopolitan city life.